It's not always cheap labor, but when perusing the publicly listed wages for engineers on h1-b visas, they seem on average lower than the offers I've received f

It's not always cheap labor, but when perusing the publicly listed wages for engineers on h1-b visas, they seem on average lower than the offers I've received for the same title at the same companies. It's hard to make any strong conclusions however, since most salaries are not published and just a job title does not say too much about how someone was hired into a company. I agree generalizing it as cheap labor is not fair, but I do feel sorry for my friends just starting their careers with a serious lack of job mobility.